Atrocities. The one factor too many forgot to add to the equation for determining the trajectory of events in the War on Terror while it raged in the heart of Mesopotamia. Atrocities were supposed to have been at the hands of America’s robot-like, killing-machine, military. That was the mindset of the left from day one. And when it did not occur the left created fictional characters from within the military’s ranks to create the image they thought would rise out of the war in Iraq. They created PVT “Scott Thomas Allen” Beauchamp. Reality was working the way they wanted, so they made up myths and sold it in the ‘news media’ as fact. And never once apologized to America for feeding out lies as fact. A power mad liberal Congressman even slandered his former corpse by declaring their guilt in a situation which has now been proven to be not their fault – Haditha and Mad Jack Murtha are another example of the Liberal dream not coming true.

But while the atrocities never showed up on the American side of the ledger as a ubiquitous and unavoidable characteristic of America and American forces, they proliferating with searing force on al-Qaeda’s side. Actually, as this State Department report notes this is not a new feature of Islamists, it is an old one that the news media failed to convey to the public:

“Among the accounts of mutilations, beatings and arbitrary executions there was evidence of a new abomination: the torture of children. An unknown number of infants were savagely beaten during the Islamic militia’s 14-month occupation of Taloqan, the former headquarters of the Alliance, usually for the supposed crimes of their parents.” (Source: The Times [U.K.], 11/13/01)

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“The barbarity of the Taliban plumbed new depths when troops shot dead eight boys for daring to laugh, sickened refugees revealed yesterday. The teenage lads had been chuckling at the soldiers who suddenly raised their Kalashnikov rifles and gunned them down. It was one of a string of atrocities in the besieged Afghanistan city of Kunduz, which was last night poised to fall to the Northern Alliance. At least 300 frightened Taliban were killed by men from their own side because they wanted to surrender.” (Source: The Sun [U.K.], 11/19/01)

These animals enjoy killing babies and children. It excites them and makes them feel powerful. These are the people who fit the fantasy images of the left usually ascribed to Americans. It is not easy to find the stories of al-Qaeda atrocities, the media has been obsessed in trying to create the image of American atrocities. I was going to list some of the few stories on the beheading of children, etc. But I realized there is no need to prove these atrocities occurred when al-Qaeda itself worried about these acts and their impact on the Muslim Street. Not to mention there were open criticisms of al-Qaeda by Muslims for their atrocities last year when they starting their campaign of murder, torture and rape (aka forced marriages).

“This was followed by acts of persecution against Sunni Muslims, harming their livelihood. They planted explosives in front of homes, schools and hospitals, [or] under electric transformers, without taking any account of the consequences for society, without whose support and help we will become easy prey for the Crusader occupation and its helpers, the vicious Shiites.

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“They stretched the [principle of] using human shields to the utmost, and they did not consult their upright ‘ulama, as you yourself [bin Laden] advised them to do in one of your sermons. Their campaign to cut off all contacts among Muslims is a heinous act, because it [has sometimes led to] sick children dying in their mothers’ arms, and to homes burning down with people inside them. I do not believe that Allah gave them the right to defend themselves against [foreign] agents at the expense of the sick and the needy…

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“In Ramadi, armed men attacked leaders of the [Al-Qaeda] Organization [in Iraq] after prayer in the mosque, denounced them, and killed them in front of the people. Incidents of this sort have recurred in a number of places: in Al-Jurma, Khalidiyya, Al-Fallujah, and elsewhere…. After these incidents, they slid even further into error, and fearing for their own lives, they began to frighten and terrorize people in order to deter them from entering the schools and universities.

This was a request from al-Qaeda’s one time allies to stop the atrocities on Muslims. It fell on death ears. Again, we see the true purveyors of human suffering that in the minds of the left had to be Americans. It was al-Qaeda’s Islamo Fascists. The repercussions of these acts, and the fact al-Qaeda central sanctioned them, is still building. The latest was the denunciation of Bin Laden and al-Qaeda by a prominent Islamist cleric in Saudi Arabia:

In an open letter, one of his prominent Saudi mentors, preacher and scholar Salman al-Oadah, publicly reproaches bin Laden for causing widespread mayhem and killing.

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The significance of that can be appreciated only in the context of the position al Oadah holds in Islamic orthodoxy. He’s a heavyweight Salafi preacher with a large following in Saudi Arabia and abroad. In the 1990s the Saudi regime imprisoned al-Oadah, along with four leading clerics, for criticizing the kingdom’s close relationship with the US, particularly the stationing of American troops there after the 1991 Gulf war. That decision – posting forces in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam – was the catalyst that drove bin Laden to attack the US. Throughout the 1990s bin Laden cited al-Oadah as a dissident voice and critic of the Saudi royal family and fellow Salafi traveler who shared his strict religious principles and worldview.

It is not just his allies in Iraq who are turning on Bin Laden. It is a lot of people who fell for the BS from al-Qaeda about raising Islam up, when all they did was tear it down in sea of Muslim blood and pain. Bin Laden is the Adolph Hitler of the Middle East, except this time his atrocities are now mostly against the very same Muslims he wants to lead. And Islam is tiring of the Bloody Bin Laden:

He [al-Oadah] holds bin Laden personally accountable for the occupation of Muslim lands in Afghanistan and Iraq, displacement of millions of Iraqis, killings of thousands of Afghans, internment and torture of promising and deluded young Muslims, and a tarnished image of Islam all over the world.

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Islam, he reminds his former disciple, prohibits the killing of any bird or animal, let alone “innocent people, regardless of what justification is given.”

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The targeted attack on bin Laden and his militant group by a respected religious authority is lethal, coming at a critical juncture for Al Qaeda and like-minded factions worldwide.

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Sunni resistance to Al Qaeda in Iraq gathers steam, limiting the group’s movement and options. Another militant group – Fatah al-Islam, which subscribes to Al Qaeda’s ideology and was active in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el Bared in North Lebanon – was dealt a mortal blow by authorities and universal rejection by Muslim Palestinian and Lebanese opinion. Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Saudi Arabia has suffered major setbacks and is on the run.

Rejection is sweeping the Muslim world. Rejection of al-Qeada. Somewhat because they keep losing to The Great Satan, but mostly because of all the death and destruction they have wrought in the Muslim community. It was not the US who used Chlorine filled tanker-trucks as bombs on open markets in Iraqi villages. It was al-Qaeda. And as they are defeated and rejected their anger grows, what little self-control they had disappears, and their rampaging increases. Creating even more rejection and blowback. It is a death spiral. It is al-Qaeda’s death spiral. And it all started in Anbar Province Iraq thanks to the determination of our brave Military and the resolve of our Commander-in-Chief.